Japanese literature as world literature : visceral engagement in the writings of Tawada Yoko and Shono Yoriko
Robin Leah Tierney (Dissertant), Maureen Robertson (Thesis advisor), University of Iowa Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
When Tawada positions the male body as an object of tactile inquiry and explores the bodily-confusion-with-another inherent in the process of ovulation as a narrative drive, I see a re-working of corporeal and cognitive logics. This reworking, I contend, is not a conclusive "righting of wrongs" but an invitation to join in the ongoing process of articulating difference in a potentially post-national world
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2010
University of Iowa, [Iowa City, Iowa], 2010